A 20+ inch brown I caught here in AZ many years ago one spring. It was pretty cold; I remember paddling past a giant ice floe (50 yards across?) about an hour before hooking up this fish:
This is what camp looks like at 10,000 ft in September on Boulder Mountain in UT:
Another nice brown while float tubing one spring. This guy actually grabbed a big purple hopper:
This brown was too big to fit in the 22-inch net. Fooled her with one of my own ties:
If you've never seen or heard of one, this is a 15-inch specimen of the AZ native Apache trout:
My second brown trout ever caught in AZ:
Tying flies at 6am in camp and drinking a beer for breakfast at Lee's Ferry:
